Self-adjustable valve



Sept. 16, 1930.

O. HASELOFF SELF ADJUSTABLE VALVE Filed Sam. 18, 1929 FIG.,2

INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 16, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE l or'ro HASELOFF, on new YORK, N. Y.

SELF-ADJUSTABLE VALVE Application filed September 18, 1929. Serial No. 393,355.

This invention relates to valves and it particularly relates to self adjustable valves, the object of the invention being to provide means by which a conduit for any fluid,

whether it be a liquid or a gas, may be opened or closed in an absolutely reliable manner.

It is a further object of the invention to provide such opening and closing means in the form of a self adjustable valve which will be low priced in cost and which is even more economical than the valves of the prior art in its operation because none of its parts will require repairs for the reason that unusual and unnecessary strains on the valve parts are avoided wherefore, except for the limited resistance of metallic materials, repairsof the valve will be practically avoided.

My new self adjustable valve is also highly economical in its operation because it cuts down the expense of time, labor and the losses by service interruptions necessitated by regrinding or renewing valve seats, etc., because my new self adjustable valve closes at any time even if the valve seat is not 2 properly machined and hangs to one side or the other.

In the assembling of valves, faulty valve bodies are easily detected if the seat ring has a crack through which a liquid or a gas can leak, or if the seat ring has upwardly extending projections which would not allow the valve disk to properly and fully sit upon the seat ring. Very much experience and great care is required to discover a valve having a seat ring which is not properly disposed in a horizontal plane, but is slanting sidewise so that the stem, arranged perpendicularly to the plane of the seat ring, will rest only on one side of the seat ring and will leave open a crescent shaped slot through which the fluid, passing through the conduit, may escape.

All these defects are avoided by my new adjustable valve.

7 With these and other objects in view, which will be more apparent from the description below as I describe my invention by citing the valve illustrated in the accompanying drawing, as an example in which my inven tion is embodied.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of one valve containing my new invention, part of the outside shell being broken away to disclose the valve seat and stem in relation to each other and parts of the stem also being broken away so as to disclose certain features of my invention more thoroughly, and Figure 2 is a detail view showing the position of the head of my new valve on a sidewise slanting seat ring.

In the accompanying drawing the letter V denotes a body of a valve usually known as a globe valve, in which the seat 10 is centrally arranged in a substantially horizontal plane, the seat ring 11 being of any suitable surface, for instance having the shape of an inverted V.

The valve neck 12 is provided inside with a female thread which engages the outside male thread 13 of a bushing 14 having a plate like rim 15, which closes the opening of the neck, and a six cornered nut-shaped terminal 16 is superimposed upon said rim 15.

The bushing 14 ends in a lower terminal 17 in the form of a tube of somewhat smaller outside diameter than the male thread 13. The bushing 14 is provided inside with bores of various widths arranged downward in step-wise fashion. The upper nut-shaped terminal 16 is provided at its inside with a female thread 18 going down to about the plane in which the outside male thread ends where a rim is provided upon which a perforated washer 19 may be arranged. The part of the bushing provided at its outside with the male thread 13 is provided inside with a smooth cylindrical wall 20 going as far down as to the beginning of the lower terminal tube 17 which is provided with a raised female thread 21 to about the middle of its length.

A gland 22 provided with a male thread on its outside engages the female thread of the nut-shaped terminal 18.

Centrally and perpendicularly through aforesaid gland and bushing 22 and 18 and the valve seat 10 a stem 23 is arranged, said stem being flattened at its top so as to engage a turning wheel (not shown) and near its lower end it is providedwith a raised male thread 24 engaging aforesaid raised female thread 21 Within the lower terminal tube 17.

The stem 7 23 terminates in a stud 25 over which a coil spring 26 is tightly fitted. Co-

axially with said stem 23 and centrally above- Ythe valve seat 10 isarranged a downwardly V 'stud 25 and stem28.

tapering valve disk 27, which has on top a centrally 7 arranged, upwardly projecting stemorcylindrical nipple, 28, which like the stud 25, is tightly inserted into the coil 26, but from below, leaving an interstice between The coil 26 is niade ofelastic ,znon-corrosive' steel. Y z heva ve isr prov ded Wi h Pm sm rial oftheusual-kindand iiithe usual inan v 'Theoperationof the valve is in every respect the same-asthat of any other valve V with this diflerence, however, which is brought about by the action ofthe coil spring encircling the stud .25 and the; stem 28, which differenceisinfact, the essence-of the presentinvention. -Assuming that the valveillu strated' is .w de open, and that; therefore the Yi lve disk 27 is above the seat ring;ll,it is obvious thatowing lIOftllellgllt fit of the coil 26uponthestud 25, the coil is moved down- 3Q weirdlyas soon asthestein 23 is turnedsoas tomove d'ownwardly.1;Assoon as the valve disk 27 comes to rest on the seat rlng 11,;the

said diskinay he pressed upon the same until longer possible.

a'fur ther compressionof the .eoil 26 is. no

, 1 A s-soon as thisipartioular, state is reached I the-jurther turning. of thestein 23Qis useless v I the. valve disk,tightenonpthe'seat rlng fll jiiorlthi s turninghas theeifect {on the coil that it slightly widensso that the stud- 25 slidesWithin the coil 26 without EPTQSSlIlg This; sliding. o t the st'udg25 in the coil-26 .be-

' :whichlin fact is used as an indication .to ther ,operator-that the valveisnow closed.;-

r i if the; valve is closed and must he opened' the steni 23 is turned-in the usual waywith the'result that the coil spring 26'tightens in1- coinessot obvious to the operator of; the: valve "because,"contrary to thedifficulty entailed by, the -tightening of the; old style; valve,,the

stemisuddenly turnswith an unusual ease inediatelyiupon the ystud -25 land the nipple I28jso-ithat the grip thus-obtained upon them causes fi'dii k t0 Q QW the upward i h sa v -3 This action m veme l yq vthe s m 9 r by open ngi ss e 3 nanerm ne closin m ne-1st tialg. for.gmy;invention areToflarge or sin'all d m ns ns-x E er i i vs same. rega d es ao li'k he dnnensions of they ve and ts -parts,;'essenj k I relatioi of'thewalve, to; the} seat ring; 1 1 in. casejthe same "is 'ieaP'e la me h e s-e r p r o i he same as in the valves of the prior art the valve disk prairie cbn aint; 2's lurid-l adjustable l censist n f valve" b y the ualitypes-and' havin a is slanting. Anl inspection of this figure.

shows that the valve. disk 27 self-centersitself uncler the elastic pressure exerted upon it:

by the coil spring 26 and that the seat ring x ll is covered all around its periphery, wheresitsonly onthe high part oftheseat ring and V a gap, caus ngtheivalvetojleak, -1s.formed on the side towards-which the seat'ring is slam;

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may hesuhs'titutedany other similar flexible the stem 23 is turnedafter closing the valve and oftightening its grip on the stud 25 and the stein28 when the valve i-s' opened. j l Vhat l -claim is? -1near'1s havingthe property of widening when f f l'.-l n a valvethe comhination with a valve hodyqoifany of the usualftype's, of a; stem 'adapted'= to operatively {engage aforesa d valve body and te'rminating atitsal ower end in astu d of snia ler diameterthanthat ofthe stem, valve disk havingan upwardly pro:

jeeting nipple terminating; just ,helowqafore said stud, and flexible means coopera tively.

nieansreleasing-its gripfon thestud after the valve is closed and tightening its-grip;on both; the stud and nipple whenthe valvels valve the-combination with avalve 1 opened; 4 Y r 2. Ina I H g body of any ofthe usual types, of a sten'na;

.serew threaded'ly. engaging. ,the thread of 9.0. engaging aforesaid stud gand nippleg sa d V f aloresaidpvalve body, a stud at the lowerendj o'fijthe stemmfsinaller 'diaineter than that of J the screw .threadof the stem, 'a valve disk i" havinga circular'nipple terininating just be 1 low; aforesaid; studyand an exp ansion -eoil spring 'cooperatively-v encircling aforesaidgf on the stud after the'valve 1s closed and t ght; F Y in stud and; nipple,-.said. 'coil ;rele asi ng its grip when thalve is opened,

In valveithe combinati :fstud and perpendicularly above lits oentra lly located if "esaidvalve-bo a stu d at the'lower'end having eyli ndric al nipple terminating; ust below. aforesaid.) stud, and-an -expansion' C011 Slums -Qi r e v; n afe fi' d 4 studjand nipple said-epilreleasing i tskgri ;v V g p on' the stud after the valvei is 'closedand j piewhen the valve is opened i ,ei 'eaiai pa -'T :sl "w l eli talQWerrara slew thread adapt d. r ra e y engage Q esa Ive-bedrib 'w i i 'ii lve hodypi anyg of the usual' typ'es, of agstenn I ccentrallyiarranged-'in aforesaid valvejbody 11 Itis' u'nderstood thatfor the coilsprmgi26 and having below its screw thread a stud of smaller diameter than that of the screw thread, a plate disk with a nipple terminating just below aforesaid stud and an expansion coil spring encircling both the stud and nipple, said coil releasing its grip on the stud 7 after the valve is closed and tightening its grip on both the stud and nipple when the valve is opened.

10 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

OTTO HASELOFF. 

